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The major signs of the Hour

علامات الساعة الكبرى

The major signs are ten portents the Prophet ﷺ listed in the hadith of Hudhayfa ibn Usayd al-Ghifari: the Smoke, the Dajjal, the Beast, the sun rising from the west, the descent of Isa, Ya'juj and Ma'juj, three landslides, and the Fire driving people to the gathering 1.

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CreedAfterlife and eschatology

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The major signs are ten portents the Prophet listed in the hadith of Hudhayfa ibn Usayd al-Ghifari: the Smoke, the Dajjal, the Beast, the sun rising from the west, the descent of Isa, Ya'juj and Ma'juj, three landslides, and the Fire driving people to the gathering 1.

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Mentioned in
Bukhari 3207 — The Isra and Mi'raj hadith· Muslim 162 — The long Mi'raj report (Malik ibn Sa'sa'a)· Muslim 2759 — God stretches out His hand for sinners to repent

People and things also explored

Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)· The Isra and Mi'raj· Anas ibn Malik· Muhammad· Sayyi'at (evil deeds and sins)· Al-Buraq· Tawba (repentance)· The opening of the breast

Sources

  1. Sahih Muslim
  2. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
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Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

A hadith qudsi is what the Prophet related from his Lord, marked in the chains by the formula 'among what he relates from his Lord', and also called divine or lordly tradition to set it apart from the prophetic hadith. The Encyclopaedia of Islam notes that, unlike the Qur'an, it is not recited in the prayer and may be touched without ritual purity, and that it may come by inspiration or in a dream rather than necessarily through Gabriel. It forms no separate group in the books of tradition, but collections exist, among them al-Madani's al-Ithafat al-saniyya and Ibn al-Arabi's Mishkat al-anwar.